This study deals with the peoples who settled in Ireland before the coming of Chris-tianity (around the 5th century C.E.), and more precisely with both the builders of pas-sage tombs dating from the Neolithic period and the Celts. The analysis revolves around the omnipresence of a symbolical feminine element in pre-Christian landscapes (be they natural, megalithic or literary) and takes into account the matrifocal nature of these ancient communities, assessing its impact on Celtic societies and rituals. A specific apprehension of the natural features and its symbolic repre-sentation will be examined here. The latter is expressed by the Neolithic peoples through feminine sexual attributes they deliberately added to natural places or through ...
Portal tombs, of which there are approximately 180 in Ireland, are the least studied of the great me...
The stylised naked females figures carved out of stone and wood found upon medieval churches and tow...
The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject...
This study deals with the peoples who settled in Ireland before the coming of Chris-tianity (around ...
La présente étude s’intéresse aux popula-tions installées en Irlande avant l’arrivée du christianism...
This work consists of a comparative study of the female deities venerated by the Celts of Gaul, Anci...
La civilisation celtique insulaire se caractérisait par un fort substrat païen. Le sacré pouvait s’i...
International audienceFemale images are quite varied within the Celtic world, and most of them date ...
This paper is concerned with the storied landscapes underlying the megalithic tradition of the Irish...
In the field of archaeology, male bias has been prevalent in both theory and practice. Female Celtic...
Those who study European society after the fall of the Roman Empire up until the dawn of the Renaiss...
Petroglyphs are found throughout Ireland, on both natural and artificial surfaces. They have not bee...
International audienceOn the Atlantic façade, megaliths are a characteristic of Brittany in general,...
Everything about the coming of the Celts in the Celtic Isles is postponed to later publications, due...
International audienceApproaching the identity of Iron Age populations is particularly delicate. Man...
Portal tombs, of which there are approximately 180 in Ireland, are the least studied of the great me...
The stylised naked females figures carved out of stone and wood found upon medieval churches and tow...
The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject...
This study deals with the peoples who settled in Ireland before the coming of Chris-tianity (around ...
La présente étude s’intéresse aux popula-tions installées en Irlande avant l’arrivée du christianism...
This work consists of a comparative study of the female deities venerated by the Celts of Gaul, Anci...
La civilisation celtique insulaire se caractérisait par un fort substrat païen. Le sacré pouvait s’i...
International audienceFemale images are quite varied within the Celtic world, and most of them date ...
This paper is concerned with the storied landscapes underlying the megalithic tradition of the Irish...
In the field of archaeology, male bias has been prevalent in both theory and practice. Female Celtic...
Those who study European society after the fall of the Roman Empire up until the dawn of the Renaiss...
Petroglyphs are found throughout Ireland, on both natural and artificial surfaces. They have not bee...
International audienceOn the Atlantic façade, megaliths are a characteristic of Brittany in general,...
Everything about the coming of the Celts in the Celtic Isles is postponed to later publications, due...
International audienceApproaching the identity of Iron Age populations is particularly delicate. Man...
Portal tombs, of which there are approximately 180 in Ireland, are the least studied of the great me...
The stylised naked females figures carved out of stone and wood found upon medieval churches and tow...
The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject...